All Along the Bell Tower: An Analysis of Surveillance and Affect on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus

Black and Brown students at JHU were, continue to be, disproportionately impacted by surveillance architecture security technology built into the campus environment. Protest messaging including “shut down plantation, cancel Hopkins private police!” “surveillance won’t give us safety” touch on impact of these small forms violence experienced marginalized students, yet frequently disregarded perpetrating institution. By exploring affect theory, architectural history, art-making practices, this project analyzes objects that produce everyday JHU’s Homewood representational can emerge from them. Through production mixed media photographs centering campus’s elements as subjects, I propose an alternative way seeing without spectacle work through weighted affectual experiences.